This is an excellent draft. I generally agree with the statement, but there is an issue with regard to paragraph 3.
The requirement that registries "MUST check all labels in a variant set against the Domain Name Label List for Trademark Claims before any domain names in the set are registered" works perfectly for languages with scripts that have consistent IDN tables like the Han script for the Chinese language. This is because the result of any check involving consistent IDN tables would yield the same results. For the Arabic script (the second most widely used writing system in the world after the Latin script), the result would not be consistent because the IDN tables for Arabic are inconsistent and would result in risks/confusion for registrants, trademark holders as well as end users.
I do believe the issue of SSAC has already been covered becuase it clearly refers to "all the lables" against "the Domain Name Label List". I cannot see what else it could mean. If it could be of any issue that is relevant, it is already been addressed in my last paragraph that askes ICANN and Registries to work with the corresponding language community to generate and valid IDN variants. Also our comments are at the policy level. I'm not comfortable to go to the technological details that are not the mission of this intervention. I guess there is no rules against at-large community to file 2 or more comments on the same document. If the SSAC is so essential to your comment, perhaps a separate comment would work better -- Professor Dr. Hong Xue Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) Beijing Normal University http://www.iipl.org.cn/ 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street Beijing 100875 China
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